To provide an underwear at a low cost excellent in extension rate and extension recovery factor, having sufficient bursting strength and drape properties, and suitable for a wide field including for ladies and for men.
This underwear is made of a knitted fabric which has ≥10 wt.% of the whole constituent yarn of conjugated fiber filaments to which different kind polyester polymers are bonded in a side by side pattern along the fiber length direction, an average extension rate of ≥55% in both the vertical and horizontal directions and an average extension recovery factor of ≥60%, revealing three-dimensional coil crimp, and having different coil phases of constituent filament single fibers. The knitted fabric has bursting strength of ≥0.25 MPa and bending resistance of 5-30 mm based on a cantilever method.
NIWA UJITERU
SATO MASANOBU
